In the second degree
Subtitle: paratextual literature in ancient Near Eastern and ancient Mediterranean culture and its reflections in medieval literature
By: edited by Philip S. Alexander, Armin Lange and Renate J. Pillinger
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004187733
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: In the second degree: ancient Jewish paratextual literature in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern literature / Armin Lange; title: pt. 1. Ancient Judaism. Hypertextuality and the "Parabiblical" Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke; title: The Book of Jubilees as paratextual literature / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten; title: pt. 2. Graeco-Roman world. Trojan Palimpsests: the relation of Greek tragedy to the Homeric epics / Annemarie Ambuhl; title: The Homeric epics as palimpsests / Georg Danek; title: pt. 3. Ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East. From ritual to text to intertext: a new look on the dreams in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi / Beate Pongratz-Leisten; title: Priestly texts, recensions, rewritings and paratexts in the late Egyptian period / Sydney H. Aufrere; title: pt. 4. Late ancient and medieval paratextual literature. Rabbinic paratexts: the case of Midrash Lamentations Rabba / Philip S. Alexander; title: Some considerations on Enoch/Metatron in the Jewish mystical tradition / Felicia Waldman; title: Three Latin paratexts from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ("Sulpicia," "Seneca"-"Paulus," Carmen Avale) / Kurt Smolak; title: Paratextual literature in early Christian art (Acta Pauli et Theclae) / Renate J. Pillinger; title: Paratextual literature in action: historical apocalypses with the names of Daniel and Isaiah in Byzantine and old Bulgarian tradition (11th-13th centuries) / Anissava L. Miltenova.